14/18 But of course, as Curling said----" "GOD bless you, my good woman," Mrs.Minchin broke in. "Don't let us go back to that. We all know pretty well what Mrs.Seymour's made of, now. I'm as good a sick-nurse as most people, and if you keep up your heart we'll pull them all through before we get to the Cape." But with all her zeal (and it did not stop short of a quarrel with the surgeon) and all her devotion, which never slackened, Mrs.Minchin did not "pull them all through." We were just off the Cape when Arthur Curling died. He was my own age, and in the beginning of the voyage we had been playfellows. |